Who is Neuroweave? What do we do?

What is Neuroweave?

Neuroweave is a Chinese-language knowledge-sharing group focused on neurodiversity and neurodivergence. We hope to make resources, experiences, and discussions that are often difficult to access in Chinese-language contexts more available to a wider audience.

Through translation, writing, interviews, and community exchange, we connect people from different backgrounds through an open and decentralized approach to collaboration, and explore the different possibilities of neurodiversity together.

We also hope to create more possibilities for people to understand themselves and others, and encourage everyone to choose the language and narratives that best fit their own experiences and needs.

What does Neuroweave do?

Translating information, organizing resources, and sharing experiences

• We follow research, writing, and personal narratives related to neurodiversity and neurodivergence, and try to turn this information into language that is easier to understand and discuss.

• We also organize, introduce, and discuss relevant tools and toolkits that may help people understand their own experiences and navigate everyday life.

• Readers are welcome to ask questions or leave comments. We will use the topics that people are interested in to help guide our future reading, resource organization, and introductions to relevant materials.

Documenting experiences and exploring language

• We are interested in how different people experience their bodies, process information, understand their own experiences, and interact with their environments. We hope that different ways of living, as well as different choices about how to live, can leave traces in the record of human experience.

• As we organize resources and introduce different experiences, we try to provide language and frameworks that can help people describe and understand their own experiences. However, we do not believe that there is one single correct way to express an experience.

If certain ways of describing an experience do not fit yours, you are welcome to offer a different description. You can leave a comment, send us a private message, or simply keep your own judgment:

“I don’t like this way of describing it. I think my experience is closer to another description.”

We hope that language can help people understand their experiences, rather than limit them.

Exchange and connection

• We document conversations with other self-advocacy groups, nonprofit organizations, and practitioners, hoping to learn about experiences, research, and practices that have developed in different regions and communities.

• We also hope to provide a relatively quiet space for exchange, with less social pressure, where participants can choose how they participate according to their own needs.

Neuroweave is a knowledge-sharing group that operates on a nonprofit basis.

To maintain the independence of our content and our freedom to create, we currently do not accept commercial promotions, brand marketing, or other commercial partnerships that may affect our editorial independence.

We welcome non-commercial collaboration and exchange with researchers, nonprofit organizations, self-advocacy groups, and other partners who share similar values.

Reflectiveness

We recognize that knowledge-sharing is never completely neutral, and always involves choices, interpretation, and perspectives. We therefore continuously reflect on our own positions, experiences, and the possible effects of our work.

Respect for Neurodivergent Lived Experience and Scientific Evidence

We respect the lived experiences of neurodivergent people and recognize them as an important source of knowledge for understanding neurodiversity. We see lived experience and research evidence as complementary sources that can inform and engage with one another.

Community Participation

We value two-way exchange with community members. We do not see readers as passive recipients of knowledge, but as people who can participate in discussion and learning together.

Co-creation

Nothing about us without us. Discussions, research, and decisions concerning neurodivergent people should, as far as possible, include the participation of neurodivergent people themselves, rather than being defined or spoken for solely by others.

Language Autonomy

We respect the ways in which individuals and communities choose to name and describe their own experiences. We encourage different languages and concepts to continue developing through dialogue, rather than seeking a single standardized answer.

Accessibility

We hope to make knowledge, resources, and discussions as accessible to as many people as possible, including accessibility in language, forms of expression, and ways of accessing information.

Intersectionality

We understand that neurodivergent people are not a single, homogeneous group. Their experiences are shaped by multiple identities, social positions, and environmental factors, including gender, age, culture, language, geographical location, disability, and socioeconomic background. When discussing neurodiversity, we hope to pay attention to these intersecting experiences rather than treating any group as a homogeneous whole.

Localization

We are interested in how knowledge about neurodiversity is communicated, understood, and developed in Chinese-language contexts. We believe that translation is not simply a matter of converting one language into another, but also involves translating between cultures and contexts. We therefore encourage continued exploration of forms of expression and discussion that are relevant to the Chinese-speaking world, drawing on local experiences, research, and community practices.

Reducing Stigma, Rather Than Eliminating Pathology

We are committed to reducing misunderstanding and stigma surrounding neurological differences in public discourse, while recognizing that some individuals may genuinely experience difficulties and may need appropriate support.

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These principles are not goals that we have already fully achieved. Rather, they are values that we hope to continually practice and reflect on in our work.